Control panel won't load a second time

If I close the Uniform Server main control panel, and then try to load it again, it won't load. I need to log out or restart my machine to be able to load the control panel.

Repro steps:
- I load Uniform Server (Coral 8.6.4) using Start_as_program.exe
- Main control panel loads. I can turn on Apache and MySQL, use my server, all is good
- When I'm done with the server I turn off the two services and close the control panel
- If try to run Start_as_program.exe again, nothing happens. Panel does not load.
- If I log out and back in, or restart my machine, I am able to load the main panel and all is good again.

This is happening to me consistently, not a one-off thing.

My system:
Windows 7 64-bit
Coral 8.6.4

Not sure what other relevant info I can provide. Nothing shows up in error.log or access.log.

edit: I did a bit more testing, and figure out that this only occurs if I shut down the two services before closing the panel. If I leave the two services running, I can close and re-start the panel as many times as I want.

Thanks for the persistence ... I was experiencing this as well, however, mine occurred intermittently and I could not reproduce. I too was always stopping both before closing; I will now try your method and just close

FYI, this is most likely because mshta.exe, the program that interprets the HTML code for Unicontroller, doesn't shut down properly. I found that this may happen if you rush the menus by trying to stop them early. Since it's not easily repeatable, I can't say for sure.

What I do if Unicontroller will not restart is to fire up the task manager and kill of the mshta.exe that's still running. It's one of the reasons that Ric is moving to a totally new control program for Steel-9, the next major upgrade.